100 



115. Elytra purple with straight vitta and preapioal trans- 



verse yellow, apices truncate — jubatu, Blackb. 



116. Elytra violet-purple, with a medial fascia golden — 



magnified, Blackb. 

 *117. Elytra blue, pronotum golden-red, the first with humeral 



spot and antemedial fascia yellow — chobauti, Thery. 

 118-134. Size smaller, 15 mm. long or less. 

 119-130. Elytra mostly green (sometimes blue in leaij. 

 120-124. Elytra olive-green, abdomen yellow. 

 121-123. Pronotum yellow with discal and basal spots black. 



122. Elytra with subapical fascia and epipleural spot yellow — 



pertyi, C. and G. ; var. mima, Saund. 



123. Elytra with 2 fasciae, margins and humeral spot yellow — 



flavosignata, Macl. 



124. Pronotum brassy-green — luteocincta, Saund. 



125-130. Whole surface mostly (including abdomen) metallic-green. 



126. Elytra with anterior sides and wide preapioal band 



orange-red — kerremansi, Blackb. ; apicalis, Kerr. 



127. Elytra with narrow shoulder and wide preapical mark 



yellow, the latter with 2 green spots — ocellig era, C. 

 and G. 



128. Elytra with margins and variable number of elongate 



discal spots yellow — virginea, Erich. 



129. Elytra with margins only in part yellow — viridis, C. 



and G. (possibly a local Victorian and Tasmanian 

 variety of cyanicollis, Boisd.). 



130. Elytra with epipleural spot and apical fascia yellow — 



leai, n. sp. (possibly a variety of 129). 

 131-133. Whole surface blue, or blue-black, with pale elytral 

 markings. 



132. Widely ovate, elytra with wide yellow medial band — 



obsepta, Kerr. 



133. Elongate, elytra with humeral margins and preapical 



band red — dulcis, Blackb. ; colorata. Kerr. 



Note. — Very variable, often approaching thornsoni, 

 Saund., of which it is a possible Tasmanian variety 



134. Black, basal third of elytra and first three segments of 



abdomen yellow — seminigra, Cart. 

 135-166. Elytra with pairs of yellow or red spots, the middle four 



tending to become interrupted fasciae. 

 136-154. Head without yellow spot, elytral apices simply or finely 



bidentate. 

 137-148. Elytra with epipleural and 8 discal spots yellow. 

 138-145. Pro-thorax concolorous. 

 139-144. Abdomen dark, form cylindric. 

 140-142. Elytra dark-blue or purple, underside densely pilose. 



141. Margins of elytra yellow, discal spots subequal — xantho- 



proteic Hope; parallela. White; splendtda, Gehin. 



142. Latero-humeral spot yellow, middle spots variable in size 



— elongatula, Macl. 



143. Surface golden-green, 4 anterior spots elongate — 



crocicoloT, C. and G. 



144. Elytra blue, 4 elongate spots ante and 4 subfasciate post- 



median spots red, form acuminate — I e -pi-da, n. sp. 



145. Abdomen yellow, form oblong attenuate behind — picti- 



pennis, Saund. 



Note. — Four anterior yellow spots, sometimes 

 coalescing, as in Saunders' figure. 

 146-148. Prothorax with yellow margins, 4 medial spots sub- 

 fasciate. 



